lawyer, attorney, esquire. . .

Okay, so my husband mailed me divorce papers through USPS four weeks after he left. At this time he also told me I would need an attorney so I met with a fancy lawyer in a fancy office of a fancy building. It was all quite fancy. I sat in the waiting area by myself (was no one else seeing a lawyer that day at that time?). Finally the man emerged and we had a meeting for a couple of hours and I left thinking that I had hired him and that he was going to "respond" to the papers I had gotten. I only paid him $150.00, maybe that was the problem.

Fast forward three months and I find out he did not respond to those papers and he did not need to respond. My husband served with me with papers 15 days ago. Meaning that at a very inconvenient time a half drunk man who was probably on parole rang my doorbell, showed me the same papers I already had and asked if I knew this person and pointed to my husbands name.

I talked to a new attorney yesterday and he said he will "respond" to the papers. Seriously guys this is the most ridiculous goings on of three people who actually went to law school, one being my husband who just "assumed" I knew the procedure. Hey, Jackass, I am not a lawyer and do not know the p-r-o-c-e-d-u-r-e!! So, all this time my husband has been rude and passive aggressive (what he does best) because he thought I had refused to mediate and wasn't responding to the divorce papers. Hello?! No one told me what was going on. I get papers but they are not the real papers so don't do what they say, I am going to take the fake papers and the real attorney who turns out to be a fake attorney is going to do nothing because the papers are not real. What?! Tell me again, so then I get the real papers on January 7 and I am really supposed to respond this time so get your ass dressed up and get a real attorney. One that will be kind, helpful and knowledgebale and hold your had through this, that is exactly what I did. As I drove to the bank to deposit $200.00 of my grocery money into an account that I did not know existed but actually had $6,000.00 in it, I called my soon to be ex and asked him about all of this. He assumed this and thought this and did not know that. Oh okay, kind of like our marriage. This is all making sense to me now.